News (National Championships)

Che Porteous hit a towering two-run home run over the centre field fence in the bottom of the seventh inning to cap a five-run rally by the Fuzzy Ducks, snap a 16-16 tie, and crown the Ducks as BSF Gold National Champions in an 18-16 win over the Pyros on Sunday 13 August at Farnham Park.

The BSF’s Co-ed Slowpitch National Championships for league teams will be played this coming weekend, 12-13 August, at Farnham Park, with 18 teams playing for medals in Gold, Silver and Bronze divisions.

A total of 20 men’s teams and 10 women’s teams will contest the British Softball Federation’s 2017 Single-Sex Slowpitch National Championships on the weekend of 8-9 July at the Moor Lane Sports Ground in Perry Barr, Birmingham.

The BSF has a new Co-ed Slowpitch National Champion in 2016 after four straight years of dominance by the Chromies. In a thrilling Premier Nationals final played on Sunday 14 August, the Pioneers came back from an early seven-run deficit to carve out a walk-off 10-9 win over H2O.

A near-record total of 31 teams took part in the BSF’s 2016 Single-Sex Slowpitch National Championships on the weekend of 9-10 July at the Moor Lane Sports Ground in Perry Barr, Birmingham, with winner’s trophies awarded in eight categories of play.